"These ZIP codes give the most to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders"

[Attorney in Texas]

Link to USA Today's "These ZIP codes give the most to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders;" excerpt:

WASHINGTON — Before Bernie Sanders came along, Trevor Sullivan had never donated to a presidential campaign.

But Sullivan, the 28-year-old owner of the all-vegan Pingala Café and Eatery in Burlington, Vt., said no other candidate is more aligned with his values or more focused on the “environmental crisis” climate change poses than Sanders. Inspired by his yoga-teaching wife, he donated $888.88 to Sanders’ campaign in January.... Sullivan and other Sanders supporters are putting places such as Sanders’ home town of Burlington, San Francisco’s Mission District and bike-friendly swaths of Seattle on the nation’s fundraising map, according to a USA TODAY analysis of the ZIP codes funding the campaigns of Sanders and Hillary Clinton, his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.... Sanders also counts college towns such as Cambridge, Mass., and Ithaca, N.Y., among his top ZIP codes — a snapshot of the ways Sanders’ unorthodox campaign has expanded the fundraising landscape beyond the donor-rich corridors of New York, Los Angeles and Washington.

The patterns are starkly different for Clinton.

The analysis shows her biggest financial fuel coming from the nation’s two centers of power. Six of the 10 ZIP codes providing the most campaign cash to Clinton sit in Manhattan — from Chelsea’s art gallery-filled streets downtown to the upscale neighborhoods uptown that abut Central Park’s green expanses... “It’s a little microcosm of the race,” said Viveca Novak of the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political money. “She’s the Democratic establishment, and he’s the renegade who’s been able to successfully raise money in new ways.”

Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, has proved adept at raising huge sums in small amounts. Fueled by online donations, Sanders raised $42.7 million in February, the largest one-month haul of any candidate in the 2016 presidential field and nearly $13 million more than Clinton collected that month for the primary battle.... Sanders’ No. 2 ZIP code, 94110, includes San Francisco’s Mission, a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood where high-end clothing boutiques and shops selling ice-cream made with organic buffalo milk have joined the discount stores and empanada shops that served the neighborhood’s traditionally working-class Latino population. Software engineers, game designers, programmers and web producers are among his donors from that neighborhood and the nearby Castro section of the city, which ranks No. 4 on his top ZIPs.

Clinton’s top ZIP code, Manhattan’s 10011, takes in Chelsea and portions of Greenwich Village. In all, she has raised more than $828,000 from the neighborhood. Her Chelsea-area donors include billionaire media executive Barry Diller, whose Frank Gehry-designed corporate headquarters building sits across from the Chelsea Piers and the Hudson River.... “I think she has a wealth of experience in politics, governing the country and in foreign affairs, and that makes her the most qualified person to be president,” Pagano said this week during an interview from a phone-bank operation in New York, organized by a pro-Clinton union. ... His Chelsea neighbors, however, seem divided in the race. The neighborhood ranks No. 7 on Sanders’ list of top 10 ZIP codes, the analysis shows.